Nascita e INFanzia: gli Effetti dell'Ambiente
Initiatives
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To investigate the effects of exposures acting during pre-natal and early post-natal life on infant, child and adult health.
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- Start Year
- 2005
- End Year
- 2016
- Funding
- Compagnia San Paolo Foundation
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Follow-up information is obtained with repeated questionnaires completed 6 and 18 months after delivery. Starting at age 4 of the child, specific outcomes are assessed via ad hoc short online questionnaires. Currently the followup questionnaires are at 4, 7 and 10 years of the child. Passive followup involves linkage with available population registries, including the Hospital Inpatient Registry, the Birth Registry, the Cancer Registry, etc.
Marker Paper
Popovic M, Pizzi C, Rusconi F, et al. Infant weight trajectories and early childhood wheezing: the NINFEA birth cohort study. Thorax. 2016 Dec;71(12):1091-1096. DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-208208.
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Families
- Other : Pregnant women and their newborns.
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 4,492
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- 7500 mothers and children
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://www.progettoninfea.it/index_en